The automatic generation of narratives

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The automatic generation of narratives

Theune, Mariët; Slabbers, Nanda; Hielkema, Feikje

(2007) LOT Occasional Series, volume 7, pp. 131 - 146

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Abstract

We present the Narrator, a Natural Language Generation component used in a digital storytelling
system. The system takes as input a formal representation of a story plot, in the
form of a causal network relating the actions of the characters to their motives and their
consequences. Based on this input, the Narrator generates ... read more a narrative in Dutch, by carrying
out tasks such as constructing a Document Plan, performing aggregation and ellipsis and
the generation of appropriate referring expressions. We describe how these tasks are performed
and illustrate the process with examples, showing how this results in the generation
of coherent and well-formed narrative texts. show less